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| lilshawn:
--- Quote from: pbj on September 09, 2022, 11:19:11 am ---Who the hell even uses cash anymore. Strip club patrons? Drug dealers? --- End quote --- give you 20 bucks visa in hand for your neogeo |
| dmckean:
--- Quote from: RandyT on September 09, 2022, 05:47:30 pm --- --- Quote from: Zebidee on September 09, 2022, 05:15:21 pm ---As for the money - there are not-insignificant allowances for this and that but much/most of it comes from their own "old money" investments. Hard life I'm sure :P but nobody wants to see the Queen begging for crusts or doing pole-dances for tips either. --- End quote --- A quick Google search reveals that they cost the British people £102.4 million the last year on record... --- End quote --- The royal family has at least $40 billion in known assets (and not all their assets are known). They have no need to be siphoning off tax money. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: dmckean on September 09, 2022, 11:04:09 pm ---The royal family has at least $40 billion in known assets (and not all their assets are known). They have no need to be siphoning off tax money. --- End quote --- If that's true, then why are they still costing British taxpayers money? More last year than before. That's a serious question, and maybe the reason for the resentment. |
| bobbyb13:
--- Quote from: RandyT on September 09, 2022, 08:23:27 pm ---I'll admit it's not all that much per capita. But as for your other data, it sounds like a fair bit of "pro-monarchy propaganda". It assumes that those funds would not have been raised sans her involvement and it's not like she was personally licking envelopes to solicit for donations. But like I said, it's not for anyone but the brits to decide if the monarchy is worth supporting. I know some hate it with a passion because of what it stands for and don't want to pay a penny to support it, while others feel just as strongly in support of it. It would probably be fairer to let the people make the call as to whether or not they want to continue to support it. The fact that they don't do this almost seems like there aren't as many still in support of it as is assumed or propagated. --- End quote --- Many Brits I know accept it as the status quo but understand that the monarchy is an unnecessary relic. Deference to someone as adorable as the late Queen is certainly part of the reason that people have tolerated the whole situation. Her offspring maybe not so much. As Eddie Izzard has said "that's one saved ---smurfin---' Queen..." Fewer will be happy about it all when few can afford their electrical bill there soon. |
| Zebidee:
My themed musical contribution to the afternoon. One of my favourite tracks. "There is no future... in England's dreaming" I pogo'd to this, with my best man, at my (first) wedding. |
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